Since we began awarding grants in February 2018 we have now funded seventy-two young people, awarding a total of over £50,000. Each of the recipients has been able to demonstrate their dedication to sport or music, in some cases with many hours of training and/or travel each week. Several of our recipients travel thousands of miles each year to compete in high level competitions and in all cases, a considerable financial contribution from parents is required for continued success. We are pleased to be able to have eased the burden on parents to some extent.

Please note that our safeguarding and privacy policies dictate that we only publish details about recipients of grants that they and their parents/guardians are happy with and have approved for publication.

Here’s a small selection of those the trust has supported:

	Brooke Kirlew, from Weymouth, has been supported by the trust for several years, during which she's made fantastic progress in both Taekwando and swimming. This has involved lots of travel for training camps and competitions all over the UK.
	Fynn Phillips, from Dorchester and a member of Bournemouth BMX club, was selected for the GBR Foundation squad with British Cycling, something that requires monthly training sessions in Manchester as well as competitions in the UK and Europe. Fynn is pitcured here at a training session at the National Cycling Centre in Manchester. Our support has helped Fynn with travel to Manchester and the forthcoming world championships in Copenhagen. Picture taken by Jon Syrett, TrailCreatives.
	Taylor Wormington, from Poole, plays cricket for Dorset, but also baseball, having been selected for the GB squad. The trust has supported his travel expenses to tournaments abroad.
	Kamari St. Helen, from Poole, trains with the LMC High Performance Centre, another who travels to Manchaster for Taekwondo training and throughout the UK and into Europe for competitions. He recently became a black belt.
	Alex Jones, from Bere Regis, sails out of Parkstone Yacht Club. The 2023 Topper class World Champion has, with the help of the trust, now moved to the Waszp class in readiness for the 2025 World Championships to be held in Weymouth! Click here to see a video of Alex in action!
	One of our first grants was awarded to Caitlin Chissell, from Bournemouth. She was in the Dorset county girls’ cricket squad and became the youngest player to be selected for the Elite Player Programme. The trust helped towards the cost of training sessions, match fees and travel/accommodation expenses for Caitlin who has now progressed to the Hampshire Academy, having been part of the Southern Vipers Academy until this year's reorganisation of women's cricket.
	Freya Stanger, from Weymouth, participated in the World Biathle Championships in Florida in November 2019. Her grant helped to pay for flights and accommodation and she duly became World Champion for her age-group. Fantastic achievement!
	Rebecca Hannibal, from Bournemouth, was selected for the GB Women's Monobob Development Programme which involved many hours of training both here in the UK as well as in Norway and France. Her grant helped to buy new equipment and to pay for flights and insurance costs.

Cricket is our ‘focus’ sport, where we work closely with Cricket Dorset Ltd. (Dorset Cricket Board). Drumming is our music focus, but we are happy to accept and consider applications for all sports and all musicians. The table below shows the breakdown of how grants have been distributed to date. (December 2024) We are keen to receive more applications from musicians, especially drummers.

Activity	Number of people receiving Grants	Total amount of Grant money	Percentage of money awarded
Cricket	28	£17,736	35.1%
Drumming	5	£2,056	4.1%
Other Sports	32	£26,821	53.1%
Other Music	9	£3,857	7.6%